Re: [Qemu-devel] vNVRAM / blobstore design

[Joel Schopp]

> Yea it's not hard to invent a random format each time we write something
> on disk.
>
> But I think ASN.1 BER will be useful to have in qemu anyway.  E.g. it's a
> better format for migration than what we have now.  Once we have it in
> tree re-using it seems cleaner than maintaining some per-TPM thing.

The asn.1 patches that have been posted seem to be getting a cool 
reception.  If people think asn.1 is the way to go some more review 
comments, acked-bys, reviewed-bys, or signed-off-bys would make that 
more likely to happen.  The patches have gone through several rounds of 
review and come with a decent set of tests but still haven't been 
merged.  I think they are very mergable.

I'm pretty agnostic on the encoding format.  If the community wanted 
nvram encoded in sandscrit I'd go off and write a sandscrit encoder.  We 
need to decide on something.